Is your place a house or apartment?
Anyway here are some good tips for you:
1. Focus your attention to the front of the house and the entrance into your home. This is the first thing that buyers see and they make their mind up immediately on what they are in for. Kind of like getting a dodgey wedding invitation- you don't expect much from the wedding. Clean the garden up, add some nice plants, paint or replace your gutters, get your roof tiles painted and have the place looking as best as possible.
2. You obviously can't increase the size of your house or land but you can create more storage space. Focus on adding additional storage space where there wouldn't of been before. i.e. Add built in wardrobes to the bedrooms, extend kitchen cabinets to the ceiling, add a linen cupboard, add garage storage. Storage is important to everyone and you can increase this without spending too much dosh.
3. Kitchen and Bathroom are big ones, especially the kitchen. Kitchens sell homes, we cook everyday (some of us) and if you are going to splurge in any area it would be this one.
4. Paint the place, do it yourself, its not that hard and it will make a big difference.
5. Consider having your property styled for sale. This will cost a couple of grand but to be honest it may be the best money you ever invest. A designer will come out, assess your place and bring in some nice furniture and fittings to present your place in the best possible manner. A good company will definitely bring you more than their monies worth.

Is your place a house or apartment?
Anyway here are some good tips for you:
1. Focus your attention to the front of the house and the entrance into your home. This is the first thing that buyers see and they make their mind up immediately on what they are in for. Kind of like getting a dodgey wedding invitation- you don't expect much from the wedding. Clean the garden up, add some nice plants, paint or replace your gutters, get your roof tiles painted and have the place looking as best as possible.
2. You obviously can't increase the size of your house or land but you can create more storage space. Focus on adding additional storage space where there wouldn't of been before. i.e. Add built in wardrobes to the bedrooms, extend kitchen cabinets to the ceiling, add a linen cupboard, add garage storage. Storage is important to everyone and you can increase this without spending too much dosh.
3. Kitchen and Bathroom are big ones, especially the kitchen. Kitchens sell homes, we cook everyday (some of us) and if you are going to splurge in any area it would be this one.
4. Paint the place, do it yourself, its not that hard and it will make a big difference.
5. Consider having your property styled for sale. This will cost a couple of grand but to be honest it may be the best money you ever invest. A designer will come out, assess your place and bring in some nice furniture and fittings to present your place in the best possible manner. A good company will definitely bring you more than their monies worth.

Is your place a house or apartment?
Anyway here are some good tips for you:
1. Focus your attention to the front of the house and the entrance into your home. This is the first thing that buyers see and they make their mind up immediately on what they are in for. Kind of like getting a dodgey wedding invitation- you don't expect much from the wedding. Clean the garden up, add some nice plants, paint or replace your gutters, get your roof tiles painted and have the place looking as best as possible.
2. You obviously can't increase the size of your house or land but you can create more storage space. Focus on adding additional storage space where there wouldn't of been before. i.e. Add built in wardrobes to the bedrooms, extend kitchen cabinets to the ceiling, add a linen cupboard, add garage storage. Storage is important to everyone and you can increase this without spending too much dosh.
3. Kitchen and Bathroom are big ones, especially the kitchen. Kitchens sell homes, we cook everyday (some of us) and if you are going to splurge in any area it would be this one.
4. Paint the place, do it yourself, its not that hard and it will make a big difference.
5. Consider having your property styled for sale. This will cost a couple of grand but to be honest it may be the best money you ever invest. A designer will come out, assess your place and bring in some nice furniture and fittings to present your place in the best possible manner. A good company will definitely bring you more than their monies worth.

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While I agree with a number of your points you clearly haven't read the thread or the OP question.

They are looking at increasing a valuation not selling and have a budget of $2,000 so there goes point 3, 4, 5

I just upgraded a rental by putting modern stainless steel handles from Bunnings, on the kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities. I went to a wholesale nursery and bought loads of mid sized plants and pine bark mulch. Made sure all the paths were swept and clean. It was let in a day!!!

I just upgraded a rental by putting modern stainless steel handles from Bunnings, on the kitchen cabinets and bathroom vanities. I went to a wholesale nursery and bought loads of mid sized plants and pine bark mulch. Made sure all the paths were swept and clean. It was let in a day!!!

My GF and I are readying our house for a valuation to be able top pull some equity out.

I'm looking for any simple things you may have done to increase the valuation of your property.

Cheers,

Phil

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Hi Phil, the best way to enhance your property without spending much is by cleaning and maintaining it. I recommend you feed your lawn and maybe topsoil it where it is uneven, and buy a cheap soaker hose from kmart or big w and put that on the grass for 30 mins every night up until the property evaluation.
Hire a gurney to clean what you can (pathways, driveway, bricks etc).
You should definitely weed your garden and prune it to make it neat, then as Chrispy said, mulch it...it gives it such a facelift!!
What you can do on the inside of your home is steam clean the carpet with a machine you can hire (a britex from woolworths).
Just in general make sure everything in and around the house is at its best potential.
Good luck!!

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